Rita O'Hare

Rita O'Hare was the Sinn Fein representative to the United States from 1998.

Biography
Rita McCulloch was born in Belfast, Northern Ireland to a Protestant socialist father and a Catholic nationalist mother. She was involved in the Northern Irish civil rights movement before becoming an Irish republican at the start of The Troubles, and she joined the Provisional IRA. In 1972, she was arrested for attempting to murder a British Army officer in October 1971, and she fled to Dublin, Ireland after being released on bail; with an outstanding arrest warrant in Britain, she was unable to return home to Northern Ireland. She was again imprisoned from 1976 to 1979 for smuggling explosives to an IRA member. In 1998, she became Sinn Fein's representative to the United States, although she was denied a regular visa due to the outstanding arrest warrant.